read

Plural: reads

Noun

• something that is read
  • "the article was a very good read"
• A reading or an act of reading, especially of an actor's part of a play or a piece of stored data.
• Something to be read; a written work.
• A person's interpretation or impression of something.
• An instance of reading (“calling attention to someone's flaws; a taunt or insult”).
• The identification of a specific sequence of genes in a genome or bases in a nucleic acid string.

Verb

Verb Forms: read, reading, reads

• To look at and comprehend the meaning of written or printed material.
• interpret something that is written or printed
  • "read the advertisement"
  • "Have you read Salman Rushdie?"
• have or contain a certain wording or form
  • "The passage reads as follows"
• look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed
  • "The King will read the proclamation at noon"
• obtain data from magnetic tapes
  • "This dictionary can be read by the computer"
• interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky; also of human behavior
  • "She read the sky and predicted rain"
  • "I can't read his strange behavior"
  • "The fortune teller read his fate in the crystal ball"
• interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression
  • "I read this address as a satire"
• be a student of a certain subject
  • "She is reading for the bar exam"
• indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments
  • "The gauge read `empty'"
• audition for a stage role by reading parts of a role
• to hear and understand
  • "I read you loud and clear!"
• make sense of a language
  • "Can you read Greek?"
• To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
• To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
• To be understood or physically read in a specific way.
• To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
• To read a work or works written by the named author.
• To speak aloud words or other information that is written. (often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object)
• To interpret, or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc., from.
• To consist of certain text.
• To substitute a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one; used to introduce an emendation of a text.
• To substitute a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one; used to introduce an emendation of a text.
• Used to introduce a blunter, actually intended meaning.
• To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
• To observe and comprehend (a displayed signal).
• To study (a subject) at a high level, especially at university.
• To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
• To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
• To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in a playful, taunting, or insulting way.
• To imagine sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.
• To think, believe; to consider (that).
• To advise; to counsel. See rede.
• To tell; to declare; to recite.
• inflection of read:
• simple past tense
• inflection of read:
• past participle

Examples

• A repeater signal may be used where the track geometry makes the main signal difficult to read from a distance.
• All right, class, who wants to read next?
• Arabic reads right to left.
• At the moment I'm reading Milton.
• Do you read me?
• Every time I go outside, I worry that someone will read me.
• Have you read this book?
• He doesn’t like to read.
• He read us a passage from his new book.
• His thrillers are always a gripping read.
• I always READ the board carefully before my turn, looking for potential hooks and openings.
• I am reading theology at university.
• I can read his feelings in his face.
• I had a read of the evening papers.
• On the door hung a sign that read "No admittance".
• On the quarterback's first read of the situation, his target receiver was not open.
• Our school focuses primarily on the liberal arts (read "useless degrees").
• She read my mind and promptly rose to get me a glass of water.
• That sentence reads strangely.
• to read a hard disk
• to read a port
• to read the keyboard
• What's your read of the current political situation?

Synonyms

interpret, learn, record, register, say, scan, show, study, take, translate, understand, clock, copy, hear, make out, make sense of, read, read aloud, read out, read out loud, receive, run, sic pro, speak

Related Words

READABLE

Anagrams of read